Permissions and data
What Countdown Timer Bar Samita can access on your store, and why each permission is needed.
When you install Countdown Timer Bar Samita, Shopify asks you to approve a set of permissions. This page explains what each one is for, in plain language.
Products
Section titled “Products”The app reads your products — and, through the storefront, their inventory, listings, and tags.
It needs this to:
- Show you a product and variant picker when you set display conditions.
- Read the inventory figure a stock countdown reports.
- Match product-based conditions on the storefront.
Themes
Section titled “Themes”The app reads and writes a small amount of theme data in order to install, update, and report the status of its app embed and app blocks — the mechanism that renders countdowns on your storefront.
This is also what lets the Theme integration page tell you whether the embed is active on each of your themes.
The app reads and writes files so you can upload images and have them stored on your store: countdown backgrounds, sale popup images, and the icons used on a delivery date’s progress bar.
Storefront languages
Section titled “Storefront languages”The app reads your store’s published languages so the builder can offer them in its language switcher, which is how translated countdown text works. Publish a new language in Shopify and it appears in the app on its own.
Markets
Section titled “Markets”The app reads your Markets configuration to resolve the country and language context a shopper is browsing in, which the Country and Language conditions match against.
What the app reads on the storefront
Section titled “What the app reads on the storefront”Some of what a countdown needs isn’t fetched from Shopify’s admin at all — it’s read from the page the shopper has already loaded:
| Read from the page | Used for |
|---|---|
| Page type | The Page condition |
| Storefront language | The Language condition and translated text |
| Signed-in customer, including tags | The Customer and Customer tag conditions |
| Cart contents | Showing a cart countdown only when the cart has items |
Country detection
Section titled “Country detection”The Country condition and the {country_name} and {country_flag} variables rely on looking up the shopper’s IP address to determine their country. This is a geolocation lookup at the moment they browse — it isn’t read from a saved address, and a VPN or proxy changes the result.
What the app does not do
Section titled “What the app does not do”- It does not read or modify your orders.
- It does not change prices, inventory, or product availability.
- It does not create, cancel, or alter anything at checkout.
- It does not edit your theme’s templates. App blocks are added and removed by you in the theme editor, and the optional template file for collection conditions is one you add yourself.
Data the app stores
Section titled “Data the app stores”The app stores the countdowns and sale popups you create — their text, timing, conditions, and design — along with images you upload and your app language preference.
On the shopper’s side, the only thing stored in their browser is what a Fixed minutes timer needs to keep counting across page views. Clearing cookies removes it.
Questions
Section titled “Questions”For anything not covered here, read the Privacy Policy or contact support.